Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Women writers are invited to submit: Essays for Democracy, for a book by McFarland Publishers
In an effort to document what is proving to be a unique era in American political history on several fronts, Dr. Betty Wells and I have developed a project we are calling Essays for Democracy. The purpose is to provide the venue whereby women’s voices can create the historical record of this era. To this end, we are soliciting essays from women activists for a book, tentatively titled “Resist: Women’s Voices Speaking Truth to Power” being published by McFarland Publishers.
We are inviting any women members of various groups to submit an essay for this book, on a topic of their choosing. This might be immigration, health care, the environment, a living wage, or any other concern they feel passionate about and are committed to protecting and defending.
Anyone who is interested should contact us at womenresisting@gmailcom for further details. We will work with essayists on the deadline.
Paula vW. Dail, PhD
Emerita Research Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy
www.pauladail.com
publisher: www.mcfarlandpub.com
The NCWN-West has printed the correspondence from Dr. Dail as a service to it's readers. The NCWN-West is not affiliated in any way with McFarland Publishers or with soliciting writing for McFarland Publishers.
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Progressive Rising Phoenix Press announces the release of SPOKES, a novel by Deanna K. Klingel
Progressive Rising Phoenix Press has released Deanna K. Klingel's YA novel, Spokes. Spokes is about a Catholic girl and a Jewish boy training for a triathlon, who search for clues to solve the mystery of a hit and run killer. Along the way they discover the importance of truth, friendship, and faith.
Klingel writes primarily, not exclusively, for young adult readers. She has thirteen books published and others in the que. In addition, one of the picture books is also in Spanish, and there are teacher/classroom study guides for two historical fictions. Many of the books have received recognition and awards. Two of her short stories were contest winners. She's a member of SCBWI, ACFW, Catholic Writers Guild, and NCWN. She blogs twice a week at booksbydeanna.com, and travels with her books across the South and beyond, appearing at schools, museums, and events. Her books are widely distributed and are available wherever books are sold.
Klingel is a member of North Carolina Writer's Network-West. She will be hosting a workshop at the NCWN-West's A Day for Writers, at Sylva, NC, on May 6, 2017. Ms. Klingel's topic will be: "The Merry Go Round of Children's Literature". She will discuss how to recognize the types of children's literature, the myths about writing for children, and the writing process for Child Lit and how it differs for each kind of Child Lit. She will also cover working with illustrators and finding the proper publisher for your work. Klingel will go over questions to ask your publisher before signing the contract , and will address how to market Child Lit.
Links for registration and the schedule for A Day for Writers, are here:
http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html
http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Monday, March 13, 2017
Don't miss The Literary Hour at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, March 16,2017 at 7:00 PM
Joan Howard: Her poetry has been published in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken: The Journal of Formal Poetry, Lucid Rhythms, Victorian Violet, Our Pipe Dreams, Aurorean, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Miller's Pond, the 2012 Georgia Poetry Society's anthology Reach of Song, POEM, Wayfarer, and others.
Joan is a former teacher, a current member of North Carolina Writers' Network-West, and has studied German and English Literature. Howard goes birding and kayaking and spends time in Athens, Georgia, and the beautiful waters of Lake Chatuge in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Bob Grove: Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Bob now lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Including studies at Cleveland State University, Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of South Florida, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Kent State University and his Master of Science degree at Florida Atlantic University. His diversified curriculum enabled him to teach courses in English, journalism, creative writing, general science, physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, space science and psychology.
Bob has been an ABC-TV public affairs director, an on-air personality, and the founder and publisher of Monitoring Times magazine. A prose critique facilitator for the North Carolina Writers Network and a director of the Ridgeline Literary Alliance, he has published 19 books and hundreds of articles in 21 magazines.
Now retired after 35 years as founder of Grove Enterprises, an international supplier of radio communications equipment, Bob has more time to write. He has published a mystery novella (Secrets of Magnolia Manor), his memoir (Misadventures of an Only Child), a collection of children’s stories (Adventures of Kaylie and Jimmy), and has written several flash fiction stories as well as some poetry. He has been awarded several gold medals in the North Carolina Silver Arts literature competition.
Bob’s public readings are popular as a performance art form, typified by his well attended annual reading, in costume and British dialect, of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at the John C. Campbell Folk School. He has been a featured speaker at 14 national conventions and a U.S. Congressional committee.
His collected writings on technical topics (Antenna Basics, Antenna Anthology and Ask Bob) are now available online, as is his informative Abnormal Psychology which he uses as a teaching text in continuing education classes, and Antiquing: A Collector’s Guide for appraising and auctioneering.
Several of Bob’s books are available on Amazon Kindle, and a sampling of his shorter works may be viewed on his website: bobgrove.org.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
News Alert! Coffee with the Poets and Writers resumes on Wed. March 15, 2017, at 10:30 AM at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC, with featured poet Catherine Carter
Come on out to Coffee with the Poets and Writers, fellow poets and prose writers!
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10:30 AM
Where: Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson St., Hayesville, NC. Phone #828-389-8401
What to bring: Something to read for open Mic.
Who is reading? That would be Catherine Carter who directs the English Education Program at Western Carolina University.
Catherine Carter: Born on the eastern shore of Maryland and raised there by wolves and vultures, Catherine Carter lives with her husband in Cullowhee, near Western Carolina University, where she teaches in the English Education and Professional Writing programs. Her most recent full-length collection is The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU, 2012); her first, The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006) received the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Her chapbook Marks of the Witch won Jacar Press’ 2014 chapbook contest; other awards include the 2013 poetry award from Still: The Journal, the 2014 Poet Laureate’s award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, placing twice in the Asheville Poetry Review’s annual William Matthews Prize poetry contests, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has also appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, North Carolina Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Tar River Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She does editorial work for Cider Press Review and One.
Don't miss this great poet at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network-West. This event is scheduled the third Wednesday of each month at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC.
Catherine will be teaching a poetry workshop on May 6, 2017 at A Day for Writers, a writing conference in Sylva, NC, at the Jackson County Public Library. Her topic will be: 'Free Verse Isn’t’: Sound and Structure in Free Forms". Here is the link for A Day for Writers: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
When: Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10:30 AM
Where: Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson St., Hayesville, NC. Phone #828-389-8401
What to bring: Something to read for open Mic.
Who is reading? That would be Catherine Carter who directs the English Education Program at Western Carolina University.
Catherine Carter: Born on the eastern shore of Maryland and raised there by wolves and vultures, Catherine Carter lives with her husband in Cullowhee, near Western Carolina University, where she teaches in the English Education and Professional Writing programs. Her most recent full-length collection is The Swamp Monster at Home (LSU, 2012); her first, The Memory of Gills (LSU, 2006) received the 2007 Roanoke-Chowan Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Her chapbook Marks of the Witch won Jacar Press’ 2014 chapbook contest; other awards include the 2013 poetry award from Still: The Journal, the 2014 Poet Laureate’s award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, placing twice in the Asheville Poetry Review’s annual William Matthews Prize poetry contests, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has also appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Orion, Poetry, North Carolina Literary Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Tar River Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She does editorial work for Cider Press Review and One.
Don't miss this great poet at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network-West. This event is scheduled the third Wednesday of each month at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC.
Catherine will be teaching a poetry workshop on May 6, 2017 at A Day for Writers, a writing conference in Sylva, NC, at the Jackson County Public Library. Her topic will be: 'Free Verse Isn’t’: Sound and Structure in Free Forms". Here is the link for A Day for Writers: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Thursday, March 9, 2017
We're Back: Writers' Night Out 2017 Schedule
This little guy won't be reading but you can! |
Union County Community Center
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Blairsville, GA
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2nd Fridays of the month at 7 pm
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Reading followed by open mic
Here's our calendar:
April 14: Robert Kendrick and Newton Smith
May 12: Diana Anhalt
June 9: Glenda Beall
July 14: Christopher Martin
Aug 11: Tribute to Tom Lux + humorous poetry open mic
Sept 8: Andrea Jurjevic and Jason Allen
Oct 13: Natalie Grant
Nov 10: Dana Wildsmith
Open mic follows for poetry or prose readers (3 minutes each)
Contact Karen Paul Holmes for more info
kpaulholmesATgmailDOTCOM
Monday, February 27, 2017
Kakalak Poets Read at City Lights on March 11
SYLVA, NC – CITY LIGHTS BOOK STORE
3 E. Jackson Street, Sylva, NC 28779
Saturday, Mar. 11, 3:00 PM
828-586-9499. Hosted by Eon Alden
The editors of Kakalak 2016, Anthology of Carolina Poets, are holding a reading of poets published in the anthology on Saturday, March 11 in Sylva, NC. Richard Taylor, who has co-edited this publication for years, will be there, along with other editors, some of whom will take the reins with Kakalak 2017 when Richard moves on to other endeavors. It is expected to be a real celebration of this anthology, past, present and future. I look forward to being there and to reading my poem published in the 2009 edition.
Kakalak is an annual publication of poetry and art by North and South Carolina writers and artists. All work is selected through an annual contest which has a May deadline. Guidelines for the next upcoming contest are posted on the MSR website now.
Poets who will read their poems published in the 2016 edition and in former editions are:
- Staci Bell
- Beverly Finney
- Catherine Carter
- Kelly Lenox
- Kenneth Chamlee
- Kelly Lenox
- Chris Laskowski
- Susan Lefler
- Peg Bresnahan
- Jeannette Reid
- Glenda Beall
- Lynn Santy Tanner
The anthology is published by Main Street Rag.
KAKALAK Contact Person, Richard Taylor, rtaylor947@aol.com
SBN: 978-1-59948-598-0, 150 pages, Cover price $15.00
Friday, February 24, 2017
Registration and Schedule Links for A Day for Writers
A Day for Writers - May 6, 2017 -
Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, NC
A one day writing conference for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, and anyone who wants to publish their writing. Please find links for registration and schedule below.
Registration Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Schedule Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html
Jackson County Public Library, Sylva, NC
A one day writing conference for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, and anyone who wants to publish their writing. Please find links for registration and schedule below.
Registration Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Schedule Link: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html
Friday, February 17, 2017
Paul Donovan, member of NCWN-West for many years, passed away.
Paul Donovan, poet, from Murphy, NC, published an autobiographical book of poetry, Ramblings of an Idiot, and is published in journals and anthologies including Lights in the Mountains. He spent his time since becoming aware of the healing art of Reiki, writing poetry and essays from a more
spiritual prospective. Paul was the host of Fireside Friday, a monthly reading sponsored by the Curiosity Book store at the Shoppes of Murphy. Some years before, as NCWN-West Rep for Cherokee County, he held a reading each month at Shoebooties restaurant.
Paul also initiated the first Netwest anthology, Lights in the Mountains, with his ideas for a poetry anthology by local poets. For many years he conducted the annual essay and poetry contest for high school students of Cherokee County. He was well liked and it seemed easy for Paul to collect funds from local businesses in Murphy to award cash prizes to the student winners.The winners of the contests and their parents were guests for a dinner at Shoebooties each spring.
From the early days of Netwest, Paul was active and a loyal member. In more recent years, his writing turned to personal essays about his childhood and growing up in Pennsylvania. He enrolled in a class on memoir at Tri-County Community College and his classmates enjoyed his stories.
If you knew Paul and would like to add to this post, just leave a comment. If you don't have a gmail account, you can easily publish as anonymous. Write your name in your comment or leave it anonymous.
We will miss Paul. Condolences to his lovely wife, Ann.
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Paul Donovan, Ramblings
of an Idiot Main
Street Rag, 1999
Eroding
Conversation
I
feel the inner confusion
Much deeper than what
I’ve
ever felt before
Control is just a word
until
you lose it
It’s like the babbling brook
that
slowly erodes the
unmovable force
that
once was me
the rains come
the
brook gets higher,
the
erosion continues
perhaps there is peace,
if
I should decide to go with
the
flow.
That would be nice, but
for
some ungodly reason
I
can’t
I just can’t
Shattered Mirror
Sometimes,
I feel as though I am a mirror
others
look into and take out what is
best
in me
leaving the rest behind,
the
shattered unwanted pieces that
are
me too.
MISTY SHADOWS
Morning
mist
clinging
to my window,
like
a salamander
to
the wall
of
a swimming pool
sensing
his demise.
Peering
through the dense fog,
seeing
only dark shadows,
trying
to make sense
of
a fuliginous world,
I realize,
my
tears are adding
to
the darkness.
I may never
again
see the light of day,
as it once was.
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